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If we are to have killer apps, maybe apps that make a technology grow should be offered as well. What would give me something useful today: 1. A design group posts design notes semi-annually. There are say, 85 of these every four to six months. Proposals, Implementation, Certification and Training all receive email notifications when these are posted. But everyone is busy and it can be some time until they read these. Even if they do, the details down to the control and field are more than anyone can master with a single or even repeated readings. They use these documents for diverse tasks from answering questions in a proposal, questions in a demo, questions in a classroom, and so on. Each of those questions have different levels of formality and impact on the business process, customer expectations and requirements and so on. They need agents that read for them and when asked a question (not a SQL query; a reasonable representation of a natural language question), returns a list of URIs that are applicable. In short, if possible, they'd like an agent that reads the RFP, etc. and makes recommendations about online company resources or others that will be pertinent to the document at hand. (yes, I know about Oracle Context. It COSTS TOO MUCH, Ellison.) 2. Two programmers at opposite sides of the planet working a shared project are having a battle of halfwits to determine whose design is better. Meanwhile the clock is running and schedules are slipping while others wait on these MastersOfTheAbstractAndNotVeryImportant details. Upstream of them, proposal personnel, sales personnel and contract lawyers have already predetermined that these designs will interoperate in accordance with a predetermined schema. An agent that informs them of this fact and that by the way, the Record of Authority (ROA) is named THIS URI hosted at a site where the owners are sharp enough to realize that a formal URI MUST be assigned to a public record of authority for a shared process. Don't talk to me about versioning. Just send the bloody URI. It is a lot of fun to argue about the abstractions of resources vs documents, the infinitely recursive imprecision of describing all of these, the lack of our control over this random and even hostile universe, but at the end of the day all the user needs is a URL to *a file*. If the semweb can't help the humans find and retrieve the right file at the right time for the right requirement, it's just more CaucasoidCaca and we don't need it. If it can, then bring it on and let's get on with growing our businesses. Len Bullard Senior Technical Consultant Intergraph Public Safety
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